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PICH v. LIGHTBOURNE

No. C066397.

221 Cal.App.4th 480 (2013)

164 Cal. Rptr. 3d 388

SIM PICH et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. WILL LIGHTBOURNE, as Director, etc., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

November 13, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Benjamin G. Shatz , Michael M. Berger , Ronald S. Katz ; Legal Services of Northern California, Stephen Goldberg , Jodie Berger ; Western Center on Law and Poverty Inc., Robert D. Newman ; Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations, Grace Galligher , Seth E. Blackmon ; Bay Area Legal Aid, Robert P. Capistrano , and Stephen Bingham for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Ismael A. Castro and Pauline Gee , Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

NICHOLSON, Acting P. J. —

A new computer system changed the way public welfare benefits are administered. The system automatically terminates or reduces aid if the recipient fails to submit required eligibility reports within certain deadlines unless the caseworker inputs the required information upon the recipient's ultimate submittal.

Plaintiffs alleged this feature of the computer system results in thousands of benefit...

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